“He actually said, ‘I had to get to the bottom of it. I pumped her stomach. We found some food in her stomach.’ He asked me if I had fed her that food,” James recalled. “I said, ‘No. I don’t even have that. I don’t even eat that. It’s not been in my house for probably 20 years.’ And he said, ‘Well, her stomach was full of at least a pound of it.’”

According to an incident report, the hot dogs appeared to have been hollowed out and stuffed with some other substance that may have been used to poison the animal.

A toxicology report has been ordered.

James' other dog survived a similar illness and she therefore believes someone targeted her dogs.

“I don’t know who did it, but whoever did this was a very sick individual,” she said.

James is offering a $2,000 reward for information that “leads to the successful prosecution of the individual(s) responsible.”